Gavin Lambert

Gavin Lambert

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Also an author, Lambert wrote the novel Inside Daisy Clover and biographies of actresses Norma Shearer and Natalie Wood. He arrived in Hollywood in the mid 1950s as director Nicholas Rays assistant. He devoted much of his life crafting what one reviewer called elegant, elegiac, arch fictions about his adopted home, Hollywood.

Also an author, Lambert wrote the novel Inside Daisy Clover and biographies of actresses Norma Shearer and Natalie Wood. He arrived in Hollywood in the mid 1950s as director Nicholas Rays assistant. He devoted much of his life crafting what one reviewer called elegant, elegiac, arch fictions about his adopted home, Hollywood. (Genaro Molina / LAT)

Also an author, Lambert wrote the novel Inside Daisy Clover and biographies of actresses Norma Shearer and Natalie Wood. He arrived in Hollywood in the mid 1950s as director Nicholas Rays assistant. He devoted much of his life crafting what one reviewer called elegant, elegiac, arch fictions about his adopted home, Hollywood.